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Your appeal has been reviewed and denied. We have determined this PK to be reasonable and/or justified. You may not re-appeal this PK.

Hello, firstly, it was never stated in the Don's orders that you were killed because of your race. The reasoning given was that you had expressed interest in leaving the family and had sided with the opposing faction during the coup that was taking place. While you may have genuinely been negotiating for permission to leave, this is the mafia. Deception and betrayal are part of that roleplay, and they are allowed to lie about their intentions. In this case, you approached them about leaving, they led you to believe it was possible, and ultimately decided to kill you instead. The following excerpt from the PK guidelines outlines just this: "CAUTION: This is the MAFIA, the don can LIE to you about having permission to leave, they can tell you you may leave, lowering your guard, and once you do, have you killed for leaving the faction. They have the same 2 weeks left orders timer to do so. "They gave me permission to leave but I didn't leave and they still pk'ed me" This falls under don's orders and by requesting to leave you demonstrated to the Don you are not committed to the faction, thereby giving him valid reason and suspicion to place don's orders against you."

as for any of the other ppl if there was proof brought to our attention, i’m sure they’d be banned too no one as staff is picking and choosing

Grok where’s the proof

Diverge Easy mode

Your appeal has been reviewed and denied. We have determined this PK to be reasonable and/or justified. You may not re-appeal this PK.

Garry’s mod is not perfect, these client side things happen and will pretty much always happen to some degree. Unfortunately though situations like this don’t usually warrant staff intervention, including this situation. I’m sure you understand that you put yourself in this situation and understand why the outcome of your death was what it was. I see no reason to reverse this PK just because something happened slightly different on your screen.

Your appeal has been reviewed and denied. We have determined this PK to be reasonable and/or justified. You may not re-appeal this PK.

U freaky nigga

Your appeal has been reviewed and denied. We have determined this PK to be reasonable and/or justified. You may not re-appeal this PK.

I believe you are confusing this with staff punishment. Your character being PK’d is more or less an effect from your roleplay rather than staff punishment. Per the PK guidelines if you initiate a violent confrontation with officers you are subject to PK if you die. These guidelines are set in place to make sure your roleplay actions carry weight. Otherwise you could just shoot officers everytime they attempt to arrest you, effectively avoiding all charges While it is unfortunate you are unaware of this is something we don’t give second chances for, as it’s not staff punishment per se. I strongly recommend you read the guidelines surrounding PKs to familiarize yourself so you do not have to go through this again, or at least understand what could come from your actions.

Your appeal has been reviewed and accepted. Your character has been reinstated and can be used again.

The reason why the character was PK'd was not due to the fault of the staff member or the coding of the PK system. The guy that had shot and killed him was also active to the faction the character was in, resulting in the immediate and automatic permanent kill. Though, based off of the clips provided this strongly seems like a case of possible RDM. And more importantly blatant metagaming in the clip.

Your appeal has been reviewed and denied. We have determined this PK to be reasonable and/or justified. You may not re-appeal this PK.

Hello, while this was very unfortunate timing for you there is no proof of metagaming by the cops or any sort of impropriety done on the staff part. Cops regularly patrol the ghetto multiple times a day, them stumbling across the body like that is just coincidence and bad timing for you. Additionally, while the officers may have fired first in this situation it was deemed that you consciously started the violent encounter by raising and aiming your weapon at the officers clearly with intent to begin shooting them. They just reacted before you had the chance to shoot.